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CHILDREN
Definition of CHILDREN
noun
plural of child
noun
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ċildru, ċildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ċild (“child”), equivalent to child + -ren.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,971)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHILDREN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHILDREN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 112 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CHILDREN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CDEHILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CHILDR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found CHILDREN?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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